David Hawkins

@ChuckDeVore @JEBistline There is this skill called reading. If you’re interested in learning the details of the analysis.

@JEBistline Graphic means nothing. No sources, no indication of what's being measured. Fear porn.

Wild stat: the "home" county often isn't the one breathing it. Authors estimate that within ~6 hours, ~99% of coal emissions leave the source county.

@brianstelter @brianschatz So sorry for your loss. But this is not adequate. Any death of a loved one is terrible but when the death is due to a deliberate creation of the use of unjustified force it is infuriating and heartbreaking. I hope you find peace.

A statement from the family of Alex Pretti, obtained by CNN: "We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the hero term lightly. However his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you."

@cacikra @adrianmckinty Visit hmssurprise.org listserv. Quite a few women active on it.

@adrianmckinty I really need to reread this series. Am I the only woman who's read them? Feels like it!

one of the oddest ones of the series it takes place almost entirely on land it reduces one of our heroes to their lowest ebb it contains one of the greatest scenes in post-war English literature (the "hats off" moment) 👍 for the book and 👍 for the narration by patrick Tull

@adrianmckinty On my 2d voyage thru the canon, via P. Tull. Devotees have a listserv hmssurprise.org Recent topic: placement of the period when a quotation ends a sentence.

@SenWhitehouse Coming soon, auto-pen signed copies of this prestigious prize, $1000 for the first 1000 buyers!

Could a man be any smaller?

@adrianmckinty More on Bruegel. I assembled this high-quality wooden jigsaw puzzle of The Census at Bethlehem. Hand cut at Puzzle Michèle Wilson in Paris. Mounted on a wall where I can browse it.

@adrianmckinty Not about Hunters in the Snow specifically but I enjoyed Michael Frayn’s “Headlong” novel about Bruegel painting sleuthing.

Pieter Bruegel's Hunters in the Snow is the best painting ever it's in the fantastically named Kunst Museum in Vienna it's five foot long so you can stare it for hours and continually see new details and stories

@GeorgeE33179 @DoctorVive @JesseJenkins It tells us something about the companies, not about the researchers. Companies fund independent research because it burnishes their image while their lobbyists and political contributions prevent the research from becoming a material threat.

@dahawk7843 @DoctorVive @JesseJenkins But it DOES tell us something about those researchers. It’s not wrong for them to take the money and it doesn’t necessarily mean the research is bad. But it does mean the fossil fuel industry is comfortable with (not threatened by) their research.

Oh @JesseJenkins avoided ongoing financial interests in clean energy companies but still accepted BP oil and gas money via Princeton for the Net-Zero America report? That doesn’t seem very impartial to me. Weird he doesn’t mention his fossil fuel funding in this thread.

@DoctorVive @JesseJenkins I am not in that group. There are smart, talented people who work in the fossil fuel industry but they don’t make decisions in any company I am familiar with. Policy and market forces are the only things that will change company behavior.

@dahawk7843 @JesseJenkins But I realize that some in the climate space still believe — despite their funding of Trump, despite everything — that the oil and gas industry are legitimate actors and in general the allies of the reality-based community. 🤷‍♀️

@DoctorVive @JesseJenkins I know you are aware of the importance of word choice. The word “collaborating” bears a lot of baggage and should not be used indiscriminately.

@dahawk7843 @JesseJenkins Hmm, that seems like a conceptual contradiction to me. That said, I understand how complicated it can be for individual researchers when their institutions are still collaborating with the industry. I mean even AGU takes oil and gas funding!

@DoctorVive @JesseJenkins To be clear, I once thought that academia could, with strong safeguards and transparency, use fossil fuel funding to do important work but now fully oppose such funding. However, I don’t think it is unethical for researchers to accept such funding.

@dahawk7843 @JesseJenkins You truly don’t think BP funding was relevant to his thread on how he navigates the responsibilities of policy-engaged academics in the climate space?

@DoctorVive @JesseJenkins I read his thread as focusing on how he tries to prevent his non-academic engagements from inappropriately influencing his academic work. So I don’t understand your insisting he should have mentioned BP’s well-known funding of the Princeton program.

@DoctorVive @JesseJenkins I am all for calling out people who are using academic or other credentials to peddle fossil fuel industry propaganda. @JesseJenkins is not one of them.

The problem is you are implying that Jesse was “accepting BP oil and gas money” to advance his career. You are wrong. The NZA study was a large project involving many Princeton faculty. The decisions regarding funding of the study were not made by Jesse. As you finally acknowledge, that funding was fully disclosed.

@adrianmckinty I also liked your bringing in the Hotel Marseilles, where Woolrich lived. Weird that Woolrich, who put his Rear Window protagonist in a wheel chair later had a foot amputated.

@dahawk7843 Yeah I wondered how many people wd get the Mr Stevens line - I’m glad at least one person did!

in case you missed 'em I posted a couple of short stories on my substack over the Christmas period adrianmckinty.substack.com

@adrianmckinty I lived in West Hartford when young and an uncle worked at the Hartford when Stevens was there. My parents read his poems aloud at home but we never met him.

If you want a concrete example of how our research was independent and not influenced by BP positions: our work on standards for green hydrogen was funded by CMI and awarded a CMI best student paper award when it was published. This work became the foundation of the US 45V tax credit guidance and EU delegated acts on "green" hydrogen. The so-called Three Pillars. Despite briefing BP leadership on the findings, BP's US policy team decided to oppose these rules, as they were inconvenient for their business strategy in the sector. They ended up spending 💰 on ads and lobbying the admin to kill the rules (along with Exxon, NextEra, Constellation and others). They lost, thanks in large part to our research providing the evidentiary basis for the Treasury rules.